torrent-hound 2.6.1

Search torrents from multiple websites via the CLI

Torrent Hound

A terminal-first torrent search CLI. Type a query, get ranked results from multiple trackers in one table, then copy a magnet link or open the torrent page with a single keystroke.

$ torrent-hound ubuntu
                                          PirateBay
┏━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━┳━━━━┳━━━━━━┓
┃ No ┃ Torrent Name                                         ┃      Size ┃  S ┃  L ┃  S/L ┃
┡━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━╇━━━━╇━━━━━━┩
│ 1  │ ubuntu-24.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso                     │  5.78 GiB │ 40 │  2 │ 20.0 │
│ 2  │ Ubuntu 22.04 LTS                                     │   3.4 GiB │ 32 │  1 │ 32.0 │
│ …  │                                                      │           │    │    │      │
└────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┴────┴────┴──────┘

Enter command : c1
Magnet link copied to clipboard!

Sources

Source	Content	Method
The Pirate Bay	General	HTML scrape, mirror fallback
YTS	Movies	JSON API, mirror fallback
EZTV	TV shows	JSON API via IMDB lookup

All sources are searched in parallel.

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• Runtime dependencies: beautifulsoup4, requests, pyperclip, rich, platformdirs, tomli_w, argcomplete

Install

pipx install torrent-hound          # recommended — isolated venv, auto-PATH
pip install torrent-hound           # or plain pip

Pre-built standalone binaries (no Python required) for Linux / macOS / Windows are on the Releases page.

From source:

git clone https://github.com/baddymaster/torrent-hound.git
cd torrent-hound
pip install -e ".[dev]"             # installs deps + pytest + ruff

Shell completion

Torrent Hound uses argcomplete for tab-completion of top-level flags. To enable, add one line to your shell config:

bash (~/.bashrc):

eval "$(torrent-hound --print-completion bash)"

zsh (~/.zshrc):

autoload -U compinit && compinit
eval "$(torrent-hound --print-completion zsh)"

Restart your shell, then torrent-hound --<TAB> cycles through flags.

Note: Completion only works when installed via pip / pipx. The standalone binary from the GitHub Releases page doesn't expose the Python entry point that argcomplete hooks into.

Usage

torrent-hound ubuntu

Results render as a table; enter a command at the prompt.

Command	Action
m<n>	Print the magnet link for result <n>
c<n>	Copy the magnet link to clipboard
cs<n>	Copy the magnet and open Seedr.cc
rd<n>	Debrid via Real-Debrid and dispatch via configured action (requires token)
d<n>	Hand the magnet to your default torrent client
o<n>	Open the torrent page in your default browser
p	Re-print the results table
s	Enter a new query and search again
r	Repeat the last search (cached sources reused; failed sources retry)
u	Show the source URLs used for the current results
h	Show the help menu
q	Quit

Scripting mode

torrent-hound --json ubuntu | jq '.tpb.results["0"].magnet'

--json emits a single valid JSON document to stdout and exits.

Development

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/

Tests run fully offline — parser fixtures are captured HTML, network calls are mocked.

Real-Debrid integration

Torrent Hound can send a selected torrent to Real-Debrid and hand the resulting direct link to your download manager.

Setup

One-command interactive setup:

torrent-hound --configure-rd

Prompts for your API token (get one at real-debrid.com/apitoken) and the action to run against returned direct links, then writes them to the config file with restrictive permissions.

Alternatively, set RD_TOKEN as an env var for ad-hoc use without saving anything:

export RD_TOKEN="..."

Action modes

Mode	What happens with the direct link(s)
clipboard	(default) Copied to clipboard. Multiple links are joined with newlines.
print	Printed to stdout.
browser	Opened in your default browser (works without a separate download manager).
downie	Sent to Downie 4 via its downie:// URL scheme (macOS).

Convenience flags

torrent-hound --configure-rd      # interactive setup (token + action)
torrent-hound --config-path       # print the resolved config file path
torrent-hound --user-status       # show RD account info (premium, expiration, points)
torrent-hound --revoke-rd-token   # invalidate the current token on RD

Config file

Path: ~/Library/Application Support/torrent-hound/config.toml (macOS) / ~/.config/torrent-hound/config.toml (Linux) / %APPDATA%\torrent-hound\config.toml (Windows). Managed by --configure-rd, but the format is plain TOML if you ever want to edit it directly:

[real_debrid]
token  = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
action = "downie"

Usage

After a search, type rd<n> (e.g. rd3). The flow submits the torrent to RD, waits for the hoster links, then runs your configured action. Multi-file torrents open an interactive file picker on the first invocation so you can choose exactly what to debrid.

If RD is still processing (common for larger or uncached torrents), you'll see a short "run again in a moment" message — re-running rd<n> picks up where it left off without re-prompting the picker.

Troubleshooting

• Real-Debrid rejected the token — run torrent-hound --configure-rd to enter a fresh one.
• Connectivity errors (DNS lookup failed, block page, geo-block) — your ISP / network / proxy is filtering the RD API. Try a VPN or a DoH resolver (1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8).
• Anything else — run torrent-hound --user-status to check your account. Specific error messages reference RD's documented error_code values and link to what to do.

Troubleshooting

• SSL handshake errors: see these Stack Overflow answers for common fixes.

• [PirateBay] Error : All known mirrors returned no results or were unreachable: every TPB domain in the fallback chain is blocked or down. Add a known-working mirror to TPB_DOMAINS at the top of torrent-hound.py.

• Blocked by Cloudflare captcha: some sources serve a CF challenge that requires a real browser.

Disclaimer

This software is provided as-is, with no warranty of any kind. It is intended for discovering legally-distributable content and is not intended to be used for downloading, distributing, or facilitating access to copyrighted material without authorisation. You are responsible for complying with the laws of your jurisdiction.

License

AGPL-3.0 — see LICENSE.